Multiple Choice Assessment from 12.1 Graphing Motion

What does the slope of each line on the graph tell you?

• The speed of each runner
• The acceleration of each runner

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Look at the image: Which runner completed the 100 meter race in the least (shortest) amount of time?

• Albert

• Bob

• Charlie

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Look at the image: Which runner started out the 100m race the fastest?

• Albert

• Bob

• Charlie

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What is happening between 9am and 11am?

• The cyclist is traveling up a hill

• The cyclists is speeding up

• The cyclists is traveling at a constant speed

• The cyclist is slowing down

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What do you think the cyclist is doing between 11am and 1pm? (Which is the best answer?)

• The cyclist has stopped for lunch

• The cyclists is riding at a constant speed on flat ground

• The cyclist is practicing sprints

• The cyclist is riding up a hill

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What is the total distance covered by 2 pm?

• 40 miles
• 30 miles
• 60 miles
• 10 miles

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What is the line on this graph showing?

• moving away from starting point at a constant speed
• moving back towards the starting point at a constant speed
• acceleration (getting faster)
• deceleration (getting slower)

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Looking at the graphs: Both lines on the graph show what kind of motion?

• Constant speed

• Acceleration

• Not moving

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What is speed?

• how far you go
• how much distance is covered over a period of time
• how fast you accelerate
• the change in the location of a object

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Using the graph, how does the line of a fast, steady object compare with a line that is slower but has a steady speed?

• The slower steady speed has a steeper slope

• The fast, steady object has a steeper slope

• Both are the same

• The fast, steady speed is curved

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